Wall Art Makeover

I have had a set of three wall hangings that I have tried to sell on Craigslist a couple different times (tried once in Nebraska and once again in Pennsylvania). Since I have never gotten any bites, I thought that was a sign that I should use my craft skills to update them.

I really wish I could sit here and tell you how much I enjoyed this project and how fun it was, but if I knew how frustrating it was going to be, I probably wouldn't have done it. I think everything that could have gone wrong, did indeed go wrong.

First, I disassembled the frames. Easy peasy.

Then I wrapped the matting in burlap (to match the burlap lamp shades on my buffet lamps). Easy.

Don't mind the crazy tape-job. (I used tape incase I ever want to switch out fabrics or something)

Lovely lamp shades.

And taped the fabric over the old art. This was a sinch!

Then I spray painted the little boarder piece. I think this little boarder adds a lot to the frame, so I really like it! This was also very easy.

It's all coming together! I put the almost-finished product together to make sure I still wanted to paint the frames white. The answer was yes.

I took the frames outside to spray paint and Alice guarded the burlap...

While I was spray painting it started to rain, so I pulled the sheet that the frames were laying on into the garage until it passed over. I went back inside to do something around the house and about an hour later, I heard a cracking noise in the garage. I opened to door only to find the sweet hubs had accidentally ran over the frames. Whoops! I'm glad I can laugh about this now...

We back our cars into the garage, and you really can't see anything on the garage floor when you are backing in. In the grand scheme of things, I'm really glad we figured this out by running over measly frames rather than something more important! Now we know.

After calling around to Hobby Lobby and other craft stores, I learned that these are custom size frames and will be a minimum of $50/frame to get new ones. I new at that point that we HAD to fix the ones we have. Jake did an amazing job of gluing and sanding and making the frames look like new!

The next issue was the spray paint...it wasn't adhering well to the surface of the frame. And then it would chip off really easily. And then it got scratched. And then I realized I didn't like the bright white frame and I wanted more of an off-white. So we tried to re-spraypaint. And then one frame broke. And then the glass shattered in one frame when I was trying to put it all together. And then the fabric on one was bunched up instead of laying flat.

Until FINALLY, it all came together...